American Go E-Journal

2010 U.S. GO CONGRESS DATES & LOCATION SET: This year’s U.S. Go Congress dates have now been finalized for July 31 – August 8, 2010 in Colorado Springs, CO at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. More details are available on the AGA’s GoDiscussion website. Karen Jordan is this year’s Congress Director and the event is hosted by the Springs Go Club, reports club president Jim Michali.

PORTLAND YANG WORKSHOP SET FOR MARCH: The Portland Go Club and Reed College are hosting a workshop with longtime teacher Yilun Yang 7P March 5-7. To register send a check payable to the Portland Go Club to Peter Freedman, 1710 SW Harbor Way #303, Portland, OR 97201 (note on the check ‘Yi Lun Yang’): $100 for the full weekend; $40/day; 50% off for college students; 75% off for youth/child.

REDMOND CUP REGISTRATION OPENS: Young American go players can now sign up for the 17th edition of the Redmond Cup Tournament. Preliminary games will be played on the Internet, courtesy of IGS-PandaNet, and the four finalists will be invited to the 2010 US Go Congress to play the three final games. There are two divisions in the Cup; the Junior league for those aged less than 12 years and the Senior league for those 12 and older, but younger than 18, on August 1st 2010. Competitors in the Senior League must be playing at dan strength, in the Junior 5 kyu or stronger. The participants must be members of the American Go Association or the Canadian Go Association and either residents of the U.S., Canada or Mexico or citizens of the United States living anywhere in the world, provided that they are also members of the AGA. The tournament director for the Redmond Cup is Michael Bull; Ing rules of Goe for all games. To register e-mail youth@usgo.org with your name, address, phone #, date of birth, email address, AGA rating, citizenship, and go club. The registration deadline is January 31st 2010 The Cup is sponsored by Michael Redmond 9P and his family, the American Go Association and the American Go Foundation.
– Paul Barchilon, Youth Editor

MAIDEN U.S.-CANADA WOMEN’S TEAM TOURNEY LAUNCHED: The score is even in the first U.S.-Canada Women Team Go Tournament, an online event that kicked off last week and runs through January. Sarah Yu from Canada defeated Xingshuo Liu from US in the first round but Yinli Wang collected the first victory for team USA by beating Amira Song to even the score. Colin Zheng, Lisa Scott and Yixian Zhou are helping coordinate this event.
– reported by Ke Lu; photo: Xingshuo Liu and Yinli Wang with Yongfei Ge at the 2009 U.S. Go Congress